Everyone stays.
Only the bot changes.
Switch your paid Telegram group to KickThemBot
No rejoin links to send. Everyone keeps the time they paid for.
Free for 5 members, so you can rehearse the move first.
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How to switch: Four steps. One evening.
Set up KickThemBot
Start free in @KickThemBot, create your bot and add @KickThemBot to your group as an admin. Connect the Stripe account your members already pay into, and name your plans exactly as they are named today.
Send one file
Export your members from your current tool. In @KickThemBot, open your Bouncer, choose Import / export memberships, pick CSV or ZIP, and send the file.
Move your sales link
Put your KickThemBot link wherever you sell today: your bio, your pinned post, your website. New members pay you there.
Retire the old bot
Remove the old bot's admin rights, so one system decides who stays. Before you close the old account, check that closing it will not cancel subscriptions in your Stripe.
What moves over: Their place, their time, their plan.
- Every member with time left
- Matched by their numeric Telegram ID. They are already in your group, so nobody rejoins.
- Their end dates
- Each member keeps the end date they paid up to, read from your file or, for card subscriptions, from Stripe.
- Their plans
- A CSV joins each row to your plan by its name. A supported ZIP export creates any missing plans for you, up to your plan limit.
- Card renewals
- Subscriptions billed through your own Stripe keep renewing once you connect that account, and each renewal extends access. Each Stripe row needs its sub_… ID.
What stays behind: Only what already ended.
Expired, cancelled, revoked and unpaid rows are skipped, and nothing about them is stored.
- Subscriptions your old tool billed through its own payment account cannot move. Those members renew through your KickThemBot link when their paid time runs out, once the old tool stops billing them.
- KickThemBot acts only on the members it knows. Anyone else already in your group, it leaves alone.
Before you send the file: No surprises after you hit send.
telegramUserId,planName,endAt
100000001,Monthly,2026-10-14
100000002,Yearly,2027-03-02The file
- Telegram IDs, not usernames
- Every row needs the member's numeric Telegram ID. A username alone matches no one.
- Dates
- 2026-10-14 reads the same everywhere. For dates like 03/04/2027, the bot asks whether the day or the month comes first, and a file that mixes both is sent back.
- Up to 5,000 rows
- One CSV holds up to 5,000 rows and 5 MB. Split a longer list into more files.
- Up to your member limit
- Import as many active members as your plan holds: 5 on Fresh, 25 on Bouncer, 50 on Boss, 800+ on Empire. Rows over it are listed, not lost.
- ZIP exports
- Only the primary owner can import a ZIP. It takes up to 5 MB and 25,000 rows across its files.
After you send it
- Questions first, then a receipt
- Before writing anything, the bot asks about unclear dates and about members with no end date, who would otherwise keep access for good. Then it lists what it created, updated and skipped, with the first errors by row.
- Safe to send again
- Fix a row, or upgrade, and send the same file again. Members already imported are updated, never duplicated.
- Stripe rows, all or nothing
- If any Stripe row is missing its sub_… ID, nothing imports, so a list never moves halfway.
- Reminders come from your bot
- Telegram lets a bot message only people who have opened it. After the import you get a button to share your bot in the group, and the bot tells you who a reminder could not reach.
Questions before switching to KickThemBot
Do my members have to rejoin when I switch?
No. Your members stay in your group or channel. You export them from your current tool and send the file to @KickThemBot, which records each member by numeric Telegram ID with their plan and end date, then reminds and removes them as usual from then on.
What happens to my Stripe subscriptions?
Card subscriptions keep renewing in KickThemBot when they live on the Stripe account you connect, because the subscription itself stays in Stripe. Each Stripe row in the file needs its sub_ subscription ID. Subscriptions billed on another tool's own Stripe account do not renew through KickThemBot.
Can I preview the import before it runs?
There is no preview: KickThemBot imports as soon as you send the file, after asking about unclear dates and members with no end date. Sending the same file again updates those members and never duplicates them, so you can fix a row and resend. Start with a small file.
Move five members first.
Free for five. Then send the whole file.
Moving a very large group, or several for clients? Custom plans include migration support. Email us